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Updated: May 7, 2025
"But since I hadn't remembered to have myself born six or seven million years ago, I can't somehow seem to galvanize a very active interest in the dead-and-gone periods." "Nor I," she confessed frankly, "though for daddy's sake I do try to. But for us who are living to-day there are so many problems of critically vital importance problems that the pterodactyls never knew anything about."
It is very difficult always to remember that 'what' is not polite, especially in moments of surprise or agitation. 'Are Pterodactyls plentiful now? the Sand-fairy went on. The children were unable to reply. 'What do you have for breakfast? the Fairy said impatiently, 'and who gives it you? 'Eggs and bacon, and bread-and-milk, and porridge and things. Mother gives it us.
It is asserted by evolutionists that wings as organs of flight have been independently evolved in at least four different lines namely, in insects, the fossil pterodactyls, birds and bats. That an organ so highly specialized as any one of these wings could be evolved seems improbable; while the evolution of the four different kinds, independently of each other, only increases the improbability.
I heard a great hissing from the stands occupied by the Mahars, and as I glanced toward them I saw three mighty thipdars the winged dragons that guard the queen, or, as Perry calls them, pterodactyls rise swiftly from their rocks and dart lightning-like, toward the center of the arena. They are huge, powerful reptiles.
That morning we mapped out a small portion of the plateau, avoiding the swamp of the pterodactyls, and keeping to the east of our brook instead of to the west. In that direction the country was still thickly wooded, with so much undergrowth that our progress was very slow.
By the time the thipdars had disposed of the last of the slaves the Mahars were all asleep upon their rocks, and a moment later the great pterodactyls swung back to their posts beside the queen, and themselves dropped into slumber. "I thought the Mahars seldom, if ever, slept," I said to Ja. "They do many things in this temple which they do not do elsewhere," he replied.
It seems to me that in the present state of our knowledge we cannot form a decisive opinion on the question whether the absence of limbs in such cases is the result of mutation or of disuse that is, absence of functional stimulation. The power of flight is an excellent example of adaptation. It has been evolved independently in Pterodactyls, Bats, and Birds.
I was weary and spent, so my progress was not so fast as I wished; but at last I came into regions which I knew. There was the swamp of the pterodactyls upon my left; there in front of me was the glade of the iguanodons. Now I was in the last belt of trees which separated me from Fort Challenger. I raised my voice in a cheery shout to allay their fears. No answering greeting came back to me.
The tail, he remarks, is essentially a variable organ; there are long-tailed bats and short-tailed bats, long-tailed rodents and short-tailed rodents, long-tailed pterodactyls and short-tailed pterodactyls.
There were several Mahars first, and then at least twenty awe-inspiring pterodactyls thipdars, they are called within Pellucidar. Behind these came the queen, flanked by other thipdars as she had been when she entered the amphitheater at Phutra. Three times they wheeled about the interior of the oval chamber, to settle finally upon the damp, cold bowlders that fringe the outer edge of the pool.
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